Rasheed Quotes & Sayings

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Authenticity is hard to fake — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rasheed was a fixed entity, an unchanging, finished, permanent person, and the thought of teaching him anything was as unthinkable as training a turtle to sing. Turtles cannot sing and fathers cannot change. Neither fact demands alteration. — Karim Dimechkie

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars. — Leila Rasheed

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Without love breathing is difficult but without freinds breathing is impossible. — Hussain Rasheed

Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Make your timetable according to your life but dont make your life according to your timetable — Hussain Rasheed

In the mirror, Mariam had her first glimpse of Rasheed: the big, square, ruddy face; the crooked nose; the flushed cheeks that gave the impression of sly cheerfulness; the watery, bloodshot eyes; the crowded teeth, the front two pushed together like a gables roof; the impossible low hairline, barely two fingers widths above the bushy eyebrows; the wall of thick, coarse, salt-and-pepper hair.
Their gazes met briefly in the glass and slid away.
This is the face of my husband, Mariam thought. — Khaled Hosseini

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love — Rasheed Ogunlaru

And to celebrate I will create a series of masterpieces showing how wrong-headed and primitive you and your ideologies are, and it is this that will pave the way to the new truth! As the artist, everyone will pay attention to me, while without a body of art to speak for you... no one will ever even remember your name!" Monsters 101, Book Ten: Class Dismissed — Muhammad Rasheed

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Be a star not a diva! — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning — Rasheed Ogunlaru

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them — Rasheed Ogunlaru

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Communication is the breath or death of any relationship — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.'
Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. — Vikram Seth

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack ... and nourished along the way. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The right word at the right time will unlock the door to treasures - the wrong one will close it forever — Rasheed Ogunlaru

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100% — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to. — Moveena Rasheed

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You will find little comfort in beating yourself up throughout life. You will find great comfort in life the moment you start being on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ... but because of your love. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation — Rasheed Ogunlaru

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze — Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation. — Khaled Hosseini

All selling should spring from service — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests — Rasheed Ogunlaru

A well-behaved person is not always
well-dressed. — Hussain Rasheed

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice — Rasheed Ogunlaru

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic. — Madawi Al-Rasheed

It may take many voices for people to hear the same message. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was as though a rainbow had melted into her eyes. Rasheed — Khaled Hosseini

Care about people; yes. Care about how people feel; yeah. Care about what people think; beware. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste — Rasheed Ogunlaru

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The coaches always tell me to stay aggressive, — Rasheed Sulaimon

Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.
The little girl looks up. Puts the doll down. Smiles. — Khaled Hosseini

Fun,
Joy,
Secrets,
Happiness,
is equals to
FREINDS. — Hussain Rasheed

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Life is the best and only timekeeper. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

A bath is not enough to remove all your dirt if you are dirty from inside. — Hussain Rasheed

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There is no question- love is the answer — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Nothing has value without self worth — Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The head thinks. The heart knows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you want to save youself from problems just hold the hands of truth — Hussain Rasheed